Garfield's girl
Sir: If, as I suspect, the name Judith Acton is a rose by another name, Judith Todd, then one may immediately assume that her article of 6 May on Rhodesia would reflect her prejudices. It does. We learn little more about Mr Hove's sacking, regrettable or not, than we knew already, but a great deal about Mrs Acton's opinions of the internal settlement coloured by her usual derogatory remarks about Ian Smith (well, I suppose he did detain her father, Garfield Todd, in comfort on his 10,000 acre farm), the Rhodesian Front politicians and the white Rhodesian population in general.
I would make one or two observations, more in sorrow than in anger. Why is it 'a bad thing' if a white government tears up an imposed constitution it doesn't care for, when black governments have consistentlY done so over the last twenty years or so? Secondly, the lady flatly states that Rhodesia is 'a black country'. I had hoped and believed that one might call it a multiracial country. Lastly but inevitably Mrs Acton brings in the name of President Nixon, however obscure and irrelevant the reference.
S. Heriz-Smith 63 Coniston Avenue, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
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